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Fifty Reasons Why Christ Suffered and Died from John Piper. The book is free as a PDF of their site.

Christ Suffered and Died . . .

1-To Absorb the Wrath of God (Rom. 3:25; Gal 3:13; 1 Jn. 4:10)
2-To Please His Heavenly Father (Isa. 53:10; Eph. 5:2)
3-To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected (Heb. 2:10; 5:8)
4-To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead (Heb. 13:20-21)
5-To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners (Jn. 3:16; Rom. 5:7-8; Eph. 1:7)
6-To Show His Own Love for Us (Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:2, 25)
7-To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us (Col. 2:13)
8-To Become a Ransom for Many (Mk. 10:45)
9-To Provide the Basis for Our Justification (Rom. 3:24, 28; 5:9)
10-To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness (Rom. 5:19; 2 Cor. 5:21; Phil. 2:8; 3:9)
11-To Take Away Our Condemnation (Rom. 8:34)
12-To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation (Gal. 5:11; 6:12)
13-To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful (Jer. 32:40; Mk. 14:24)
14-To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect (1 Cor. 5:7; Col. 1:22; Heb. 10:14)
15-To Give Us A Clear Conscience (Heb. 9:14)
16-To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us (Rom. 8:32)
17-To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness (Isa. 53:5; Matt. 8:16-17)
18-To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him (Jn. 3:16)
19-To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age (Gal. 1:4)
20-To Reconcile Us to God (Rom. 5:10)
21-To Bring Us to God (Eph. 2:13; 1 Pet. 3:18)
22-So That We Might Belong to Him (Act 20:28; Rom. 7:4; 1 Cor. 6:19-20)
23-To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place (Heb. 10:19)
24-To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God (Jn. 2:19-21)
25-To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest (Heb. 7:23-27; 9:24-26; 10:11-12)
26-To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest (Heb. 4:15-16)
27-To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry (1 Pet. 1:18-19)
28-To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin (Heb. 13:12; Rev. 1:5-6)
29-That We Might Die to Sin and live to Righteousness (1 Pet. 2:24)
30-So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God (Rom. 7:4)
31-To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves (2 Cor. 5:15)
32-To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting (Gal. 6:14)
33-To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him (Gal. 2:20)
34-To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning (Eph. 5:25)
35-To Create a People Passionate for Good Works (Tit. 2:14)
36-To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love (Phil. 2:5-8; Heb. 12:3-4; 1 Pet. 2:19-21)
37-To Create a Band of Crucified Followers (Matt. 10:38; Lk. 9:23)
38-To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death (Heb. 2:14-15)
39-So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death (2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 2:21-23; 1 Thess. 5:10)
40-To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead (Rom. 6:5; 8:11; 2 Tim. 2:11)
41-To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities (Col. 2:14-15; 1 Jn. 3:8)
42-To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel (Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:18)
43-To Destroy the Hostility Between Races (Eph. 2:14-16)
44-To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation (Rev. 5:9)
45-To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World (Jn. 10:16; 11:51-52)
46-To Rescue Us from Final Judgment (Heb. 9:28)
47-To Gain His Joy and Ours (Heb. 12:2)
48-So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor (Phil. 2:7-9; Heb. 2:9; Rev. 5:12)
49-To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good (Acts 4:27-28)
50-For the Forgiveness of Our Sins (Matt. 26:28; Eph. 1:7)